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Eclipse SOKRATES Creation Review

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Creation
State
Pending
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Proposal

Eclipse SOKRATES

Wednesday, July 2, 2025 - 11:18 by Thierry Fraudet
Basics
This proposal is in the Project Proposal Phase (as defined in the Eclipse Development Process) and is written to declare its intent and scope. We solicit additional participation and input from the community. Please login and add your feedback in the comments section.
Parent Project
Eclipse Technology
Proposal State
Community Review
Background

Michelin initiated an Open Source first policy and in its Open Source Journey, needs to address the change management across the whole organisation in order to enable a fast and successful adoption. The Eclipse Sokrates is a project to build training material required for the change management. 

Scope

Eclipse Sokrates delivers high-quality, modular training material on Open Source and InnerSource, covering topics from foundational principles to advanced collaborative practices.

The project offers reusable, customizable training units designed to help individuals and organizations to better understand and adopt open source principles and methodologies. The content is structured into progressive modules, starting with core concepts and advancing toward sophisticated practices in open collaboration, with a particular emphasis on how open source principles can be effectively applied within organizations (InnerSource).

Notions in-scope:

  • Open Source Awareness
  • Open Source Consumption
  • Open Source Contribution
  • Launching Open Source Projects
  • InnerSource

The reference version is in English. Translations are welcome into the project to broaden the reach of the training materials and ensure accessibility to a global audience.

Technically, all material is written in AsciiDoc for version-controlled, easily maintainable content, targeting generation in reveal.js, HTML and PDF documents from the same source without much care of the output type as a writer.

Description

Eclipse Sokrates is an open source project providing modular, high-quality training material about Open Source and InnerSource, from basic to advanced concepts. Eclipse Sokrates stands for Sharing OSS Knowledge Resources And Training for Education in Software. It is built with a "training-as-Code" philosophy, using AsciiDoc for ease of maintenance, modularity, and collaboration.

This modular training is provided as a webinar series that aims to foster a strong foundation in open source best practices, legal compliance, security considerations, and community engagement, all within the collaborative spirit of the Eclipse Foundation. Each module includes learning objectives, training materials and comprehensive and extensive speaker notes, so anyone can use the material out-of-the-box to give a training session or record a webinar.

The training modules can be forked by any organisation to tailor them for their particular environment.

Licenses
Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 (International) License
Legal Issues

We found this open source (AFPLv3) tool and its website with the same name: https://www.sokrates.dev/. Its goal is to help understand source code by making visible the size, complexity, and coupling of software, as well all people interactions and team topologies. It provides examples with metrics about ASF, the Linux Foundation and many more. 

Why Here?

Michelin is a member of the Eclipse Foundation and they bring strong guarantees regarding vendor-neutrality, governance, IP and sustainability of the project that are extremely important for our partners and for the community in general.

Future Work
Project Scheduling
  • September 2025: Delivery of the first version of awareness module
  • December 2025: First version of the five modules (Awareness, Consumption, Contribution, Creation, Innersource)
People
Project Leads
Thierry Fraudet
Florent Zara
Committers
Thierry Fraudet
Florent Zara
Julien Millau
Adrien Gooris
Guillaume Serre (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Julien Gagnet (This committer does not have an Eclipse Account)
Romain Masseboeuf
Interested Parties
  • Michelin
  • Eclipse Foundation
  • Thales
  • Mercedes
  • DINUM (French State OSPO-like)
Source Code
Initial Contribution

Michelin will provide the first training module (Awareness) as the initial contribution.

Source Repository Type
GitLab
Source Repositories
https://gitlab.com/flzara/sokrates

Eclipse Sokrates is an open source project providing modular, high-quality training material about Open Source and InnerSource, from basic to advanced concepts. Eclipse Sokrates stands for Sharing OSS Knowledge Resources And Training for Education in Software. It is built with a "training-as-Code" philosophy, using AsciiDoc for ease of maintenance, modularity, and collaboration.

This modular training is provided as a webinar series that aims to foster a strong foundation in open source best practices, legal compliance, security considerations, and community engagement, all within the collaborative spirit of the Eclipse Foundation. Each module includes learning objectives, training materials and comprehensive and extensive speaker notes, so anyone can use the material out-of-the-box to give a training session or record a webinar.

The training modules can be forked by any organisation to tailor them for their particular environment.